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Report: Jill Kelley asked FBI to drop e-mail probe over the summer

On Tuesday, people familiar with the case said that at one point in the summer, after the investigation began pointing to larger potential national security issues, Ms. Kelley tried to get the FBI to drop the matter. The people said she made the request because she was worried about the personal information being provided to investigators.

Ms. Kelley, a 37-year-old volunteer who organized social events for military personnel, developed misgivings after friends in her Tampa social circle urged her to drop the matter, saying the probe would only cause bigger problems, the people familiar with the case said…

Ms. Broadwell, whose extramarital affair with Mr. Petraeus had ended by then, believed that Ms. Kelley may have been a romantic rival, according to this official. Besides the emails sent directly to Ms. Kelley, she also sent a flurry of emails from a pseudonymous account to senior military officials, denigrating Ms. Kelley, the official said.

In the email received by Gen. Allen, Ms. Broadwell—writing under the pseudonym KelleyPatrol—described Ms. Kelley as a “seductress” and warned the general about being entangled in a relationship with her, the official said. A lawyer for Ms. Broadwell didn’t return messages seeking comment Tuesday.

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This is a distraction you all. Can’t you see that? The American public loves a good sex scandal. Perfect thing to get our attention away from the election results, and evidence of massive voter fraud in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The Kelleys established the Doctor Kelley Cancer Foundation in 2007 with the exclusive mission “to conduct cancer research and to grant wishes to terminally ill adult cancer patients,” according to The Huffington Post. Things did not exactly go as planned. “By the end of 2007, the charity had gone bankrupt, having conveniently spent exactly the same amount of money, $157,284, as it started with — not a dollar more, according to its 990 financial form,” HuffPost’s Jason Cherkis and Christina Wilkie report. “Of that, $43,317 was billed as ‘Meals and Entertainment,’ $38,610 was assigned to ‘Travel,’ another $25,013 was spent on legal fees, and $8,822 went to ‘Automotive Expenses.’” Neither of the Kelleys were able to be reached for comment.

Gee, the HuffPost found the goods first

From what I can see if it was not this person, it would be another.

Similar questions popped up in my mind why the other female would have a disabled vet outreach promo set up at the Democratic National Convention, and a guest appearance on Jon Stewart. Typical everyday book writer who never wrote a book, typical social liason for the Generals (what did General Grant call them?) and what looks to me like a pack of Generals who are dumb as bricks. Useful, usable.

The WH gets to diminish the military at the same time, two for the price of one, just before cutting the military